Gone fishin' — for a career

Bill Youmans spends a brisk autumn afternoon casting into a pond he's stocked with a variety of fish.¦ Amanda Lucier

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Amanda Lucier

Bill Youmans has stocked the ponds near his mother’s house in Columbia with fish for the past five years. Having returned from an internship as a fisheries manager in the Great Smoky Mountains, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, Youmans drops a line into one of the ponds to see which of the eight different kinds of fish have survived the winter.